Megan Sweet and her 12-year-old son, Malcolm, have been going on a lot of walks during the COVID-19 pandemic. During these treks, they stop and smell flowers during the day or watch the sunset at ...
With school schedules getting busier, screen time increasing, and daily routines becoming more demanding, children today need simple practices that help them stay calm, focused, and emotionally ...
A passion for the value that meditation can bring into one’s life encouraged Lindsay Messina, a special-education teacher, to write a children’s book that serves as an introduction to meditation ...
As mask mandates and talk of vaccines continue, it's unsurprising that kids may feel anxious about what's happening in the world around them. Coupled with heading back to school, parents may wonder ...
Many years ago, when my daughter was a toddler, I decided to introduce her to the concept of mindfulness, which is most simply defined as the ability to observe thoughts and feelings non-judgmentally, ...
Naomi Osaka, the four-time Grand Slam champion, is preparing for motherhood in a special way. In a recent exclusive interview for People, Osaka shared about her project of narrated meditations that ...
Back when Travis M. Spencer’s daughter was in fourth grade, there were times when she struggled to fall asleep. On those nights, Spencer used to take a few minutes for mindfulness. First, Spencer ...
Renowned tennis player Naomi Osaka warmed the hearts of fans when she announced her pregnancy in January. The 25-year-old recently shared an update on her bump with social media fans. Osaka posted an ...
Children actively meditating experience lower activity in parts of the brain involved in rumination, mind-wandering and depression, our team found in the first brain-imaging study of young people ...
You’re probably aware—either from personal experience or simply from reading the news—that more and more children and adolescents in the U.S. are suffering from more and more mental stress and anxiety ...
Parenting in the hospital is stressful. Moms and dads naturally focus on their ill child, sometimes to the neglect of their own mental health. A Stanford Medicine team has found an effective way to ...